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Watch thrill-seekers chase a double Gloucester down a hill and a great goal by the England midfielder in our online clip rundownOK, so the sun may not be shining all the time but, hey, it's summer and time to get out there and get fit! To give you a little...

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Option's XYFI (pronounced ex-WiFi) was announced earlier this week with little fanfare but piqued our interest with its claim to being the world's smallest personal hotspot. We had an opportunity to look and discuss it at a quiet table at MWC today, a nice change from a showy booth....

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Yours truly won’t be attending the Mobile World Congress this year, but I found a story I wrote last year about a little excursion I took on the last day of the Barcelona-based mega trade show in 2012. So I guess this is not really about the GSMA trade show...

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Getable, the artist formerly known as Rentcycle, started out with a mission to bring the rental industry online, offering free, realtime reservations for consumers along with business management tools for local rental shops. It’s an ambitious goal, and one that found almost immediate support from investors. However, in tackling such...

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By now you've seen the tragic footage of a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashing soon after takeoff from Bagram airport in Afghanistan. What does this look like, from an aviation perspective? To get the caveats out of the way: - I don't know first-hand that this is an authentic video, although...

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An Apple spokeswoman has officially responded to the lawsuit filed yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice over the Apple-backed agency model of e-book pricing. In a statement to All Things D, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr: The DOJ’s accusation of collusion against Apple is simply not true. The launch of...

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HTC (2498) has a steep hill to climb in 2013 as its struggles persist, and the phone it intends to rest much of its hope on has just been revealed. Twitter user “evleaks,” who has a solid track record of leaking images and details surrounding unreleased smartphones, has published the...

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The Associated Press has the first word on pricing for Samsung's 55-inch OLED HDTV and it's going to be a steep hill for most of us to climb: $9,000. A Samsung spokesperson has informed the news agency that the company's Super-OLED TV will cost "over 10 million won," which...

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One of the big stories of MWC 2013 is phones that don't run Android or Windows Phone — we've seen a handful of new, upstart operating systems pop up to challenge the big players in the industry, including the Samsung- and Intel-backed Tizen. The company had a party last...

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A few years ago I said, on the Atlantic's web site, that all I wanted for Christmas was a flying boat. Now that you ask, I was thinking of the spiffy new amphibian Icon A5, then still in development in Los Angeles.Sadly, no one pays attention to my dreams and...

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In some ways, Windows 8 is do or die for Microsoft (MSFT). The platform’s failure certainly wouldn’t sink the world’s largest software company, but it would be a huge setback for Microsoft as it transitions to a new world where touch input and real-time information take center stage. Opinions are...

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Research In Motion (RIMM) has a steep hill to climb as it prepares to unveil its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system later this month. Launching sleek new BlackBerry 10 handsets that prompt a healthy portion of its current user base to upgrade is of the utmost importance, of course. Just as important,...

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Nokia (NOK) continued to struggle in 2012 despite the launch of its highly anticipated Lumia 900 smartphone. Things seem to be improving a bit as sales of its new flagship phone, the Lumia 920, appear strong, but the vendor has a steep hill to climb if it hopes to swing...